workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the …

costs influence insider wages and outsiders’ opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … address the more complex, and open, question of how employment and unemployment move through time, in response to labor market …

flexible multi-state Mixed Proportional Hazard specifications for transition rates between employment, unemployment, and …' transition rates from unemployment to employment increase. Longer periods of non-employment generally decrease future transition … welfare/non-participation. Our main finding is that after longer periods of employment with high income, individuals …

tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a … stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

incumbent firms. Our results indicate that individuals’ employment stability was higher in incumbent than in newly founded firms … while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six …

provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants … analyze the question of wage discrimination among migrants by estimating wage equations for men and women, controlling for …. However, in a few specific cases, we find that migrants from a particular province earn significantly less than those from …

the degree of assimilation in Germany, which is consistent with a switch of migrants' reference point from home countries …This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fluctuations in macroeconomic … conditions in their country of origin. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2009 and macroeconomic …

impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations …. We find that the enactment of both universal and public-sector only mandates reduce employment of likely unauthorized … workers. Meanwhile, employment verification does not affect naturalized Hispanic workers but increases the employment …

-educated workers. We find no evidence that the Campaign had a negative impact on the employment of full-time workers whose wages were … wages, the Campaign for Minimum Wages. To evaluate the impact of the Campaign, we use a regression discontinuity approach … the Campaign had been earning above the minimum wage. We analyze a panel data set with information on workers from before …